Hello,
I have an output column with just the text 'January' or 'February' etc.
I want to create another column adjacent that will be a date in the following format, '01JAN2017'.
My issue is that I always want the date to be the first of the month but for the current year.
Eg.
January = '01Jan2017'
February = '01Feb2017'
etc etc
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Cam
One idea:
new_column = '01' || substr(month, 1, 3) || put(today(), year4.);
Hi,
This doesn't work. I just get empty column.
Cheers,
"This doesn't work" isn't really helpful. Can you post the log from your attempt that didn't work?
It does work
data new;
input month $;
cards;
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
;
run;
data new1;
set new;
new_col='01';
new_col1=upcase(substr(month,1,3));
new_col2=put(today(),year4.);
fin_col=new_col || strip(new_col1) || trim(new_col2);
run;
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